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Riftworld Chronicles is a television series.

History
Riftworld Chronicles began as an eight-part web series, starring Erin Karpluk and Tahmoh Penikett, about a wizard named Alar who becomes stranded on Earth. Each episode was under ten minutes in length.

The characters in the series were based on a short film called The Portal. The series was a CBC-TV production, written by Jonathan Williams and produced by Laura Perlmutter and Andrew Nicholas McCann Smith.

In 2016 the web series was developed into a television series, set in Toronto, and also starring Karpluk and Penikett. The 44-minute pilot for the series was screened at SeriesFest in July, and won two awards.

Episode 1
This pilot episode follows the wizard Alar as he teleports from the Riftworld to Toronto, and then realizes that on Earth his wizard powers are weakened, and he is unable to return. He meets a young journalist and enlists her help, but it takes him most of the episode to convince her that despite his strange behaviour he is not deranged. The episode was shown on CBC Channel 5 at 8:00 pm EST on November 9, 2016.